Great Journeys

Russia’s Road West - Norman Stone (1x6)

Fecha de emisión: Dic 01, 1989

As the Soviet Union reels from one crisis to another, Norman Stone, Professor of Modern History at Oxford, wonders whether the ideology of Lenin can finally be buried once and for all? Making his first journey across Russia, from the frozen Baltic to the warmth of the Black Sea, Norman Stone is haunted by the greatness of the Tsarist past. "The Revolution was a terrible mistake," he says. Today, travelling through some of the most volatile parts of the country, he can see the scale of the Soviet mess confronting Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika; food shortages, a collapsing economy, choking pollution and discontent. Is this the end of Communism? Now the Cold War is over, where does Russia go from here?